Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:

Panetta said that Obama left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."

In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Panetta said that, save their 5 o'clock prescheduled meeting with the president the day of September 11, Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that day. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.

This better be satire, Jesus Christ Almighty!!!!! WTF!!! IMPEACH 0BAMA. He should be available 24/7. I’ll bet Valerie Jarrett shielded him from the incident, trying to protect his re-election.. IMPEACH HER TOO!!! FOUR AMERICANS DIED, DAMN IT!!!

Axelrod on Why Obama Campaigned Hours After Benghazi: Everything Was Put in Motion That He Could Put in Motion

November 5, 2012

President Obama returned to the campaign trail hours after terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate and a safe house in Benghazi, killing four Americans, because everything was put in motion that he could put in motion, Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday.

Axelrod was asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about the presidents decision to fly to Nevada for a campaign event within hours of the Sept. 11 attack  compared to the decision late last month to suspend campaigning for three days to deal with superstorm Sandy.

Chris, as I said, immediately when word of the attack came, the president was meeting with his top national security folks. He was talking to them well into the night. He was in touch with them during the day, as  during the next day as well. So, there is no question about the fact that he was focused on this.

But, why did he feel he could campaign within hours after a terror attack? Wallace asked.

Well, everything  everything was put in motion that he could put in motion, Axelrod replied. Everything  every conversation that needed to be had was being had between him and his top national security officials.

According to the official White House schedule for Wednesday, September 12, Obama left the White House for Andrews Air Force Base and the flight to Las Vegas at 2:05 pm. That was less than 24 hours after the drawn-out attack in Benghazi began; less than 16 hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Twitter first reported that an unnamed State Department officer had been killed in Benghazi; and about six hours after Clinton tweeted confirmation that four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were dead.

Obama cites Benghazi phone call with national security team  but no meeting

On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama said he called up his National Security team by phone while the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was being attacked, but did not say that he held a meeting before he flew to a fundraiser in Las Vegas.

As soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team and I gave them three instructions, Obama told a questioner during the town hall debate in Hofstra University.

The presidents mention of a phone call  not a formal meeting in the White House  with his national security team may fuel Republican accusations that the president is more focused on his re-election campaign than national security.

Prior to the Sept. 11 jihadi attack on the Benghazi facility that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Obama had scaled back his meetings with intelligence officials.

On Sept. 10, 2012, Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and a Republican, cited a report by the Government Accountability Institute to bolster his argument that national security has not necessarily been the personal priority the president makes it out to be.

During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times  or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent  falling to just over 38 percent, Thiessen wrote.

My thought to, however, seems I remembe reports of Obama beein present and watching the live stream video from Bengazi on 911, anybody knows better? the secdef has told a few whoppers before so I don’t think another one bother him, he lied for Clinton and he lies for Obama and he probably can’t tell the differance anyway, after all he is a lawyer

Only the President has the authority to authorize the crossing of International borders with a military force. But by being “absent” He did not have to give the order or not give the order. A seemingly perfect crime if this was a setup.

Proof of premeditated murder if proven.

A president cannot be “absent”. His location is known 24/7. In case of a real absence, a Vice President would be called. But if he gave the order that he was unavailable, then he could be called absent, and his decision was made NOT to give the order.

No two ways about it, Obama is legaly quite present in the decision to allow the embassy to burn. In the least felonious malfeasance, in the greatest, Treason in High Office.

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posted on 02/07/2013 10:18:32 AM PST
by American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)

Obama delegated it to some staffer. Panetta and Dempsey said that they had no further personal contact with Obama and none with Hillary. Everything appeared to be handled by staffers in the WH, NSC, and DOD.

If this had been Bush, the news cycle would be absolutely full of stories of incompetence, indifference, etc. They would bring up the alcoholism questions, and would probably start a new ‘Nightline’ to deal with it. But, since this is the socialist in chief, they will ignore it.

If this is true, I think it might finally take away the Teflon. I don’t see how he can get out of this one, particularly since everybody else bent over backwards to say how “involved” he was. The only thing they sort of said was that he went to bed (after the first attack was over, supposedly) and left early the next morning for Vegas.

But if he wasn’t even there and nobody knew where or how to reach him, and he didn’t even call in, I think it’s going to be very hard for even the most devoted fans to defend him.

That said, is this true? I didn’t see any comments about this among the posts on the live thread on the hearings.

(My theory has always been that he went to bed early, even before the first attack, and left strict orders not to be disturbed...and they were afraid to wake him.)

>>> Obama cites Benghazi phone call with national security team  but no meeting

That was what I remembered.

He knew a situation developing in Benghazi, left someone(s) else in charge, continued Las Vegas fundrasing as scheduled, then as events got out of hand, sent Rice and his lapdogs to spread smear about a youtube video.

And all this time, none of those left in charge ever thought of keeping Obama up-to-the-minute informed. ???!!!!???!!

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